INTERSECTIONS AND CROSSINGS
A JOINT MEETING OF THE WESTERN CANADIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE AND THE NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS HISTORY CONFERENCE
VICTORIA INN, BRANDON, MANITOBA
SEPTEMBER 25 – 28, 2019
PROGRAM
Wednesday, September 25, 7:00 p.m.
Roundtable: Woman Suffrage on the (Broadly-Defined) Northern Great Plains (WHIG* session) Salon 1
Moderator: Sarah Carter, University of Alberta
Bethany Andreasen, Minot State University
Kristin Mapel Bloomberg, Hamline University
Kelly Kirk, Black Hills State University
Molly P. Rozum, University of South Dakota
Lori Ann Lahlum, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Gerard Boychuk, University of Waterloo
Thursday, September 26, 9:00 a.m.
Protest and Activism on the Canadian Prairies 1969-1978 Salon 2
Chair: James Mochoruk, University of North Dakota
Karissa Patton, University of Saskatchewan, “‘Especially for out-of-town Women:’ Birth Control Centre Outreach Programs and Knowledge Exchange in 1970s Southern Alberta, 1969-1979
Cheryl Troupe, University of Saskatchewan, “Operation Flour Power: The Unlikely Partnership of Metis Activists and Prairie Farmers”
Laura Larsen, University of Saskatchewan, “‘This is my home’: Prairie Farmers Protesting Railway Line Abandonment, 1970-1978
Conflict in the 20th Century Global South (SMH* session) Room 117
Chair: Jerry Martin, Independent Scholar
Anotida Chikumbu, University of Massachusetts, “‘From Combatants to Contractors’: The Role Played By War Veterans in the Development of Post-War Societies in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe),” c.1919-1939
Taurai Madziise, University of Zimbabwe, “The Welfare of War ‘Collaborators’ in Post-Independence Zimbabwe”
Pheeraphong Jampee, North Dakota State University, “From Panglong to Bangkok: The British Colonial Legacy in Burma, 1947-1963”
United States Politics Private Dining Room
Chair: William H. Mulligan, Jr., Murray State University
Charles M. Barber, Northeastern Illinois University, “‘Mr. Smith’s’ Real Trial by Fire: William Langer before the U.S. Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, November 3-18, 1941”
Luis da Vinha, Valley City State University, “Making Transitions Great Again! The Trump Presidential Transition Process in Historical Comparison”
Roundtable: The Public Humanities: Reaching beyond the Ivory Tower Salon 3
Chair: Steven Robinson, Brandon University
Nikki Berg Burin, University of North Dakota
Eric Burin, University of North Dakota
David Haeseline, University of North Dakota
Bill Caraher, University of North Dakota
Thursday, September 26, 11:00 a.m.
Fur Trade, Parks, and Indigenous Space Room 117
Chair: Robert Coutts, University of Winnipeg
Mark Spence, Oregon State University, “The Plains Between: Fur Trade History in Borderlands of the Missouri River and Hudson Bay Drainages”
Fred MacVaugh, Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, “The Business of Foreign Relations on the Upper Missouri: Exploring the Nineteenth-Century Fur Trade’s Influence and Legacy on Borderlands Diplomacy and Politics”
Robert Vranich, University of Alberta, “Structures of Invasion”: Settler Colonialism and Canada’s Earliest National Parks, 1885-1930”
People and Environments Salon 3
Chair: Kenton Storey
Jonathan Hedeen, Chippewa Valley Technical College, “Paradise of Imagination: Francis Parkman’s View of the Natural World and his Conception of North American History”
Royden Loewen, University of Winnipeg, “Climate Change Vernaculars: Contrasting Mennonite Farmers from Manitoba and Iowa”
Linda Louise Bryan, Independent Scholar, “Purported Population Data Regarding Pembina, a White, Indian, and Mixed-Blood Settlement of Minnesota Territory (1849-1858)”
Violence, Gender, and Age in Early Twentieth-Century Manitoba Salon 2
Chair: Erin Millions, University of Winnipeg
Kathryn McPherson, York University, “Empire’s Children: Patriarchy, Violence, and Youth in Rural Manitoba, 1870-1914”
Rhonda Hinther, Brandon University, “Putting Early Twentieth-Century Prairie Sex Workers on Screen”
Morganna Malyon, Brandon University, “Domestic Violence on the Canadian Prairies during World War I: The Efficacy of Case Study Research”
Wartime Private Dining Room
Chair: Perry Hornbacher, Bismarck State College
Jonathan Soucek, Purdue Univesity, “The End of the U.S.-Dakota War and the Beginning of Emancipation: Rethinking the Freedom Narrative of the Civil War”
William H. Mulligan, Jr., Murray State University, “A Small Town and the Great War:
Northborough, Massachusetts, 100 Percent Americanism, and World War I”
Comment: Harl Dalstrom, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Thursday, September 26, 12:45 – 2:00 p.m.
Society for Military History luncheon Room 134
By reservation at registration
Thursday, September 26, 2:00 p.m.
Confronting Settler Colonialism in Western Canada Salon 3
Chair: Kelly Saunders, Brandon University
Kenton Scott Storey, Winnipeg, MB, “Aboriginal title in the Press at Red River and New Westminster”
Eric Schiffmann, University of Regina, “White Conceptions of Metis Identity: Patrick Riel and The First World War”
Modernism Private Dining Room
Chair: Christy Henry, Brandon University
Greg Bak, University of Manitoba, “Initiating a Digital Culture in Manitoba: Robert Bury Ferguson and Ferut, 1952-1956”
Michael J. Mullin, Augustana University, “I want to congratulate you on all the work you did in bringing the EROS program to Sioux Falls”
Complicating the Midwest: Diverse Twentieth Century Experiences in Central Minnesota Room 117
Chair: Robert W. Galler, Jr., St. Cloud State University
Kayla Stielow, St. Cloud State University, “Agency and Engagement: Japanese Americans in Central Minnesota during World War II”
Kyle J. Imdieke, St. Cloud State University, “’Born of Hunger’: The Growth of Diversity at an Upper Midwest University, 1908-2018”
Mohamed Mohamud, St. Cloud State University, “The Various Experiences and Challenges of Somali Immigrants in Central Minnesota”
Comment: Betsy Glade, St. Cloud State University
Votes for Women on the Northern Great Plains (WHIG session) Salon 2
Chair: Morganna Malyon, Brandon University
Elizabeth J. Almlie, South Dakota State Historical Society, “Stories of Place and the Equal Suffrage Movement in South Dakota”
Gerard Boychuk, University of Waterloo, Path(s) to Suffrage?: Female Enfranchisement in the Northern Plains States, 1910-1920
Kristin Mapel Bloomberg, Hamline University, “Culture, Community, and Strategies for Collective Action Among Nebraska Suffragists in the 1870s and 1880s”
Thursday, September 26, 6:00 p.m.
Conference Reception
John E. Robbins Library, Brandon University
Friday, September 27, 9:00 a.m.
Roundtable: The State of Canadian Prairie History Salon 2
Chair: Betsy Jameson, University of Calgary
Robert Coutts, Manitoba History
Sarah Carter, University of Alberta
Rhonda Hinther, Brandon University
Adele Perry, University of Manitoba
Cheryl Troupe, University of Saskatchewan
Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in U.S. History (Undergraduate session) Private Dining Room
Chair: Robert W. Galler, St Cloud State University
Sonya Smetana, St. Cloud State University, “Oppression and Resistance: Chinese Immigrants in the Late 19th Century”
Jennifer Sonterre, St. Cloud State University, The Impact of the Gilded Age’s Forgotten Presidents and their Policies”
Jenevieve Jaax, St. Cloud State University, “Native American experiences in the ‘Progressive Era’”
Andrea Langhoff, St. Cloud State University, “Beyond Suffrage; Women of the Progressive Era”
Ancient and Medieval Warfare (SMH session) Salon 3
Chair: Jonathan Epstein, City University of New York
Pedro Panera Martinez, General Gutiérrez Mellado University Institute, “The Relevance of Women Warriors in the Middle Ages: Some Perspectives from the Contemporary Thought and Examples of Their Performance in Battle Actions”
Lucian Staiano-Daniels, UCLA, “Two Weeks in Summer: A Microhistorical Case Study of Soldiers and Civilians during the Thirty Years War”
Friday, September 27, 11:00 a.m.
Empire and Diversity (Undergraduate session) Private Dining Room
Chair and Comment: Luis da Vinha, Valley City State University
Abhinav Sinha, University of Minnesota, Morris, “The Indigo Plantations of Bihar”
Madeline Bennett, Valley City State University, “Assessing State Partition as a Conflict Management Strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Ryan Wharry, Valley City State University, “Sustaining Elite Narratives of National Identity in a Time of Growing Diversification of American Society”
The U.S.-Canada Border Room 117
Chair: Francis Carroll, University of Manitoba
Katie Pollock, Canadian Museum of History, “Indigenous Women’s Borderland Cottage Industry”
Scott MacKenzie, Winnipeg, MB, “Between Two Worlds: Manitoba Post #592, Grand Army of the Republic, 1889-1920”
Communities Salon 2
Chair: Kathryn McPherson, York University
Patricia Harms, Brandon University, “Voices in the Wind: Spanish Speaking Immigrants in Brandon”
Jon G. Malek, Western University, “Stitching the Mosaic: The Winnipeg Garment Industry and Filipino Immigration to Canada”
Jim Mochoruk, University of North Dakota, “The Children's Home of Winnipeg: Changing Patterns in the ‘Relations of Rescue’”
New Books, New Directions on the Northern Plains Salon 3
Chair: Suzzanne Kelley, North Dakota State University Press
Sean J. Flynn, Dakota Wesleyan University, Without Reservation: Benjamin Reifel and American Indian Acculturation, South Dakota State Historical Society Press
David D. Vail, University of Nebraska-Kearney, Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945, University of Alabama Press
Thomas D. Isern, North Dakota State University, Pacing Dakota, North Dakota State University Press
Comment: Molly P. Rozum, University of South Dakota
Friday, September 27, 12:45 – 2:00 p.m.
Women’s History Interest Group luncheon Room 134
By reservation at registration
Friday, September 27, 2:00 p.m.
Institutions Salon 3
Chair: Tom Mitchell, Brandon University
Christopher Kotecki, Archives of Manitoba, “Hospital Development in Manitoba 1870-1960”
Kylie Stasila Therrien, University of Winnipeg, “Toronto’s Zoos as Cultural Institutions”
Kellian Clink, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “A History of the Jim Chalgren LGBT Center at Minnesota State University, Mankato”
Politics and Culture (Undergraduate session) Room 117
Chair and Comment: Mark Harvey, North Dakota State University
Gabrielle Myers, Valley City State University, “Rejecting Environmental Science and Evidence-Based Policy-Making”
Brandi Adams, University of Regina, “Teaching Women to Shop: Consumer Culture and the Regina Home Economics Club in the Postwar Era”
Casey Marie Daigle, Minot State University, “Lavender Menace: Communism, Homosexuality, and the Nuclear Family”
Woman Activists in the Suffrage Era (WHIG session) Salon 2
Chair: Betsy Jameson, University of Calgary
Kelly Kirk, Black Hills State University, “‘Rousing Good Campaigns’: Ida Crouch-Hazlett in the Black Hills”
Lori Ann Lahlum, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “‘Prettiest Picket:’ Beulah Amidon: North Dakotan and National Woman’s Party Activist”
Jennifer Helton, Ohlone College, “Wyoming’s Estelle Reel: Women’s Rights and Settler Colonialism”
The Great War and the Great Plains (SMH session) Private Dining Room
Chair and Comment: Mike Burns, South Dakota Historical Society
Johannes Allert, Rogers State University, “‘Hard to Tame, but Willing to Go’: Minnesotans in Foreign Service During the Great War”
Terrence Lindell, Wartburg College, “Letters from Camp: World War I Soldiers Write Home to Bremer County, Iowa”
George Eaton, U.S. Army Sustainment Command, “Rock Island Arsenal and the 1910 Infantry Equipment Board”
Friday, September 27, 6:00 p.m.
Conference Reception (cash bar) Imperial Ballroom
Friday, September 27, 7:00 p.m.
Conference Banquet and Keynote Address Imperial Ballroom
By reservation at registration
Sarah Carter, University of Alberta, “Settler Colonial Suffragists and the Prairie Campaigns”
Saturday, September 28, 9:00 a.m.
Whiteness and History in Western Canada Salon 1
Chair: Anne Lindsay, University of Manitoba
Shelisa Klassen, University of Manitoba, “Whiteness, Land, and Immigration in Manitoba Newspapers, 1870-1890”
Ryan Eyford, University of Winnipeg, “White Settler Historian: R.B. Hill and the History of Manitoba”
Adele Perry, University of Manitoba, “Whiteness, Colonialism, and Pluralism in Postwar Western Canadian History”
Urban Spaces Salon 2
Chair: Jon G. Malek, Western University,
Dale Barbour, Brandon University, “Muddied Waters: The Social and Environmental Transformation of Winnipeg’s Red and Assiniboine Rivers, 1900-1972”
Thomas Saylor, Concordia University, “Visions of the Suburban Future: Building Jonathan”
Alison Marshall, Brandon University and Brian Mayes, City Councillor, City of Winnipeg, “The Death and Life of Canadian Suburbs? Implicit Urban Religion in City Planning”
Teaching Joint and Combined Operations at the U.S. Air Force Academy (SMH session) Private Dining Room
Chair and Comment: Douglas Kennedy, U.S. Air Force Academy
Tony Rush, U.S. Air Force Academy, “The Only Thing Worse Than Fighting with Allies is Fighting Without Them: A Pedagogical Examination of How Combined Operations are Taught to USAFA Cadets”
Myles Smith, U.S. Air Force Academy, “Combined and Joint Operations in Korea: A Case Study in UN Coalition Fighting”
Jason Naaktgeboren, U.S. Air Force Academy, “From the Arctic to Afghanistan: The Canadian-U.S. Partnership in a Coalition World”
Echos of the Premodern Salon 3
Chair: David Winter, Brandon University
Jacob Fager, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “Norse North America: Theories and Traditions of Norse Vinland”
Sarah Fischer, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “Redefining English Kingship: The Role of the Nobility in the Glorious Revolution”
Hans Peter Broedel, University of North Dakota, “How the Sea Serpent Survived: the Epistemological Value of Science, Testimony and Popular Culture in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries”
Saturday, September 28, 11:00 a.m.
Building and Sustaining Communities Private Dining Room
Chair: Michael J. Mullin, Augustana University
Karen Brglez, University of Winnipeg, “Land Surveying, Settler Communities, and Constructing German-Canadian Spaces on the Prairies: The Case of William Wagner, 1871-1885”
Mel Prewitt, Eastern Iowa Community College, “Bordertown: Gretna, Manitoba and the German Normal School”
Virginia Torrie, University of Manitoba, “Farm Debt Compromises, 1930s-1940s: An Empirical Study of Case Files from Manitoba and Ontario”
Transnationalism Salon 1
Chair: James Naylor, Brandon University
Toru Shinoda, Waseda University, Japan, “Neither European, Nor American: Why Canadian and Japanese Socialist Parties Matter”
Klára Kolinská, Metropolitan University Prague, “If only they’d stop waiting…” Staging Western Canadian Drama in Central Europe”
Kelly O’Dea, University of South Dakota, “Eastern Block Response to the 1973 Wounded Knee Occupation: A Study of the Cultural Significance of Indigenous Activism in East Germany”
Belief and Disbelief Salon 2
Chair: Patricia Harms, Brandon University
David J. Grettler, Northern State University, “The Dakota Presbytery and Native American Missionaries on the Pine Ridge Reservation, 1895-1925”
Ashleigh Androsoff, University of Saskatchewan, “‘Peace and Freedom’s Triumph’: How Independent Doukhobors Fought Militarism in Saskatchewan, 1940-1965”
Thomas Tandy Lewis, St. Cloud, MN, “Freedom to Blaspheme in the United States: A Short History”
The Continuing Centennial: The Great War in History and Memory (SMH session) Salon 3
Chair and Comment: George Eaton, U.S. Army Sustainment Command
Jonathan Epstein, City University of New York, “Turmoil at the Top: Albert, King of the Belgians, his War Minister Charles de Broqueville, and French Intervention during the Great War”
Rose-Ethel Althaus Meza, Nassau Community College, “The Forgotten Credentialed Medical Women of the Great War”
Saturday, September 28, 2:00 p.m.
Historical Perspectives on the Royal Canadian Air Force (Society for Military History Session) Air Commonwealth Training Museum
Chair and Comment: Chris Rein, Air University Press
Robert Nash, Independent Scholar, “402 (City of Winnipeg) Squadron: From D-Day to Market Garden”
Alexander Fitzgerald-Black, Juno Beach Centre Association, “Eagles over Husky: The Allied Air Forces and the Sicilian Campaign”
Kristine Swain, University of Alaska-Anchorage, “Allies and Partners: Integrating Canadian Military Personnel in the Alaska NORAD Region Mission”
Saturday, September 28, 3:30 p.m.
Society for Military History Tour of the Commonwealth Air Training Museum
NOTE:
WHIG – Women’s History Interest Group
SMH – Society for Military History